Jeffrey Quilter
Biographic Data
| ID | 76017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Quilter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Quilter |
| SIGNATURE | QUILTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ripon College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9069-2116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 444 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Wholly holy kings and queens? Commentary on Sacred Sovereigns
Luminescence dating of adobe from monumental architecture in north coastal Peru
Textiles, dates and identity in the late occupation of the Huacas de Moche, Peru
Archaeological cultures present allegories of ethnic identities across the centuries or millennia but such conceptualisations are necessarily incomplete and lack the resolution to explore transitions between cultures. Here, exploration of the archaeological contexts, production methods, stylistic variation and radiocarbon dating of 20 preserved textile fragments facilitates an examination of cultural change at Huaca del Sol (Huacas de Moche, nort…
Unveiling Pachacamac
Evidencias arqueológicas de la ocupación Cupisnique en el complejo El Brujo, valle de Chicama, costa norte del Perú
La ocupación del Formativo en el complejo arqueológico El Brujo todavía no ha sido investigado a cabalidad. Los restos de este período se concentran al sur de la plataforma geológica, entre la Huaca Paredones al norte y la Huaca Prieta al sur. Como se sabe, Huaca Prieta fue investigada por Junius Bird en la década de los cuarenta del siglo pasado y en el año 2012 Tom Dillehay y su equipo excavaron el mismo montículo Precerámico y otras áreas, cuy…
Nose ornaments
Moche Pottery
This article presents an analysis of different forms and styles of mortuary ceramics, including the well-known, highly decorated “finewares” of the Moche of the North Coast of Peru. I discuss each of the relatively limited range of Southern Moche forms which are also found at major huaca sites in the Northern Moche region. I argue that this pattern existed in early Moche times but the social upheavals of the second half of the seventh century, re…
Diet and Lifestyle in the First Villages of the Middle Preceramic
We present stable isotope and osteological data from human remains at Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III, and Morro I that offer new evidence for diet, lifestyle, and habitual mobility in the first villages that proliferated along the arid Pacific coast of South America (ca. 6000 cal BP). The data not only reaffirm the dietary primacy of marine protein for this period but also show evidence at Paloma of direct access interactions between the coast an…
Moche Mortuary Pottery and Culture Change
In this article, I investigate the Northern and Southern Moche archaeological cultures by evaluating the data gathered and theories developed since their first identification 25 years ago. I suggest that what was previously considered the Southern Moche tradition was the dominant one throughout most of the North Coast, with regional variations, prior to about AD 650. After that date, the "Classic Moche" tradition ended in both regions and was suc…
Dating the Ascope Canal System
Here we present the first 14C ages for the Ascope Canal System (ACS), a large prehispanic hydraulic network in the Chicama Valley on the north coast of Peru. Composed of multiple alignments that irrigated areas north of the river, our results indicate that the ACS was constructed and operated in the Late Intermediate Period, ca. a.d. 1000–1400. This overlaps in time with the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal that diverted water on the south side of…
Identifying New World majolica from 16th–18th Century sites on Peru's north coast
Micro-remains, Enso, and environmental reconstruction of El Paraíso, Peru, a late preceramic site
Rethinking cultural hybridity and technology transfer
Magdalena de Cao y la arqueología colonial en el Perú
With this essay, I want to explore how some of our findings during the fieldwork at Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, are related with the examination of identities in an Early Colonial Period site.First, I describe the site and then focus on in key lines of evidence about problems and potentialities to identify assimilation, accommodation, hybridization and resistance through archaeological methods since the beginning of the project to the…
The production and circulation of indigenous lead-glazed ceramics in northern Peru during Spanish colonial times
The Fall of the Moche
The Moche archaeological culture of the North Coast of Peru has been reified into a political system and claimed as the first state in South America. While some recent scholarship has reduced the size of the proposed state, the idea of Moche as a distinct political, social, or ethnic entity remains. In this article we demonstrate that even by the "classic" neoevolutionary theory of the 1960s-1980s the criteria for Moche statehood were not met. We…
Narrative Threads
Moche
The two different modes of investigation in Art History and Anthropological Archaeology are discussed. This is followed by a consideration of these issues in relation to the Mochica archaeological culture. The “Mochica” have come to be considered a political or ethnic group and, in particular, considered as a prehistoric state. This essay questions these ideas and suggests that Moche is best considered as primarily a religious system. The ceremon…
Research Articles
Sometime in the early 17th century, at Magdalena de Cao, a community of resettled native peoples in the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru, a Spaniard used the back of a letter to jot down the terms for numbers in a local language. Four hundred years later, the authors of this article were able to recover and study this piece of paper. We present information on this otherwise unknown language, on numeracy, and on cultural relations of ethn…
Chavin
Chavin
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche
Preface (Steve Bourget) Introduction (Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones) Chapter 1. Iconography Meets Archaeology (Elizabeth P. Benson) Chapter 2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration (Anne Marie Hocquenghem) Chapter 3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit (Donna McClelland) Chapter 4. Moche Masking Traditions (Christopher B. Donnan) Chapter 5. Convergent Catastrophe and the Demise of Dos Cabezas: Enviro…
Museums-Crossing Boundaries
Moche Politics, Religion, and Warfare
Gender in pre-Hispanic America
The Historical Dimension in Mortuary Expressions of Status and Sentiment [and Comments and Reply]
Subsistence Economies and the Origins of Andean Complex Societies
Recent arguments stating that marine resources were relatively unimportant in cultural developments on the coast of Peru during the Preceramic Period are incorrect on several counts. It is shown that the economics and technology of maritime subsistence of coastal Peru are more complex than previously thought, that the nutritional values of terrestrial versus maritime foods are debatable, that the dynamics of El Niño events are complex, and that m…
Late Preceramic Peru
The Fall of the Moche
The Moche archaeological culture of the North Coast of Peru has been reified into a political system and claimed as the first state in South America. While some recent scholarship has reduced the size of the proposed state, the idea of Moche as a distinct political, social, or ethnic entity remains. In this article we demonstrate that even by the "classic" neoevolutionary theory of the 1960s-1980s the criteria for Moche statehood were not met. We…
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
Moche Politics, Religion, and Warfare
The Moche Revolt of the Objects
Stories involving the death of the sun and a subsequent revolt of objects against humans are variants of a common and ancient Native American myth, and it is argued that a number of art works from the Moche culture of the Peruvian north coast depict a variant of this myth. The "Revolt of the Objects" theme is part of a narrative sequence representing an important epic of the late Moche culture that is linked to other Moche art, larger symbolic co…
Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]
The Narrative Approach to Moche Iconography
This paper develops ideas first presented in "The Moche Revolt of the Objects" (Quilter 1990). It suggests that while the thematic approach to Moche iconography is useful, application of an approach that assumes that the themes are segments of a narrative will increase our understanding of the myths behind Moche art. After discussing the basis on which narrative may be inferred from art, the narrative approach is applied to demonstrate how known …
Research Articles
Sometime in the early 17th century, at Magdalena de Cao, a community of resettled native peoples in the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru, a Spaniard used the back of a letter to jot down the terms for numbers in a local language. Four hundred years later, the authors of this article were able to recover and study this piece of paper. We present information on this otherwise unknown language, on numeracy, and on cultural relations of ethn…
Problems with the Late Preceramic of Peru
Continuity and Disjunction in Pre-Columbian Art and Culture
Diet and Lifestyle in the First Villages of the Middle Preceramic
We present stable isotope and osteological data from human remains at Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III, and Morro I that offer new evidence for diet, lifestyle, and habitual mobility in the first villages that proliferated along the arid Pacific coast of South America (ca. 6000 cal BP). The data not only reaffirm the dietary primacy of marine protein for this period but also show evidence at Paloma of direct access interactions between the coast an…
Architecture and Chronology at El Paraiso, Peru
Rethinking cultural hybridity and technology transfer
The production and circulation of indigenous lead-glazed ceramics in northern Peru during Spanish colonial times
Cave of the Jagua
Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Tafnos. ANTONIO M. STEVENS‐ARROYO. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. 282 pp., tables, figures. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8263‐1102‐4
Beyond Death
Tula of the Toltecs
Tula of the Toltecs: Excavations and Survey. Dan M. Healan editor. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1989. 313 pp., maps, tables, appendices, photographs, Fortran77 Diskette. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐87745‐209‐1
Moche Pottery
This article presents an analysis of different forms and styles of mortuary ceramics, including the well-known, highly decorated “finewares” of the Moche of the North Coast of Peru. I discuss each of the relatively limited range of Southern Moche forms which are also found at major huaca sites in the Northern Moche region. I argue that this pattern existed in early Moche times but the social upheavals of the second half of the seventh century, re…
Moche Mortuary Pottery and Culture Change
In this article, I investigate the Northern and Southern Moche archaeological cultures by evaluating the data gathered and theories developed since their first identification 25 years ago. I suggest that what was previously considered the Southern Moche tradition was the dominant one throughout most of the North Coast, with regional variations, prior to about AD 650. After that date, the "Classic Moche" tradition ended in both regions and was suc…
Micro-remains, Enso, and environmental reconstruction of El Paraíso, Peru, a late preceramic site
Identifying New World majolica from 16th–18th Century sites on Peru's north coast
Magdalena de Cao y la arqueología colonial en el Perú
With this essay, I want to explore how some of our findings during the fieldwork at Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, are related with the examination of identities in an Early Colonial Period site.First, I describe the site and then focus on in key lines of evidence about problems and potentialities to identify assimilation, accommodation, hybridization and resistance through archaeological methods since the beginning of the project to the…
Subsistence Economies and the Origins of Andean Complex Societies
Recent arguments stating that marine resources were relatively unimportant in cultural developments on the coast of Peru during the Preceramic Period are incorrect on several counts. It is shown that the economics and technology of maritime subsistence of coastal Peru are more complex than previously thought, that the nutritional values of terrestrial versus maritime foods are debatable, that the dynamics of El Niño events are complex, and that m…
Architecture and Chronology at El Paraíso, Peru
El Paraíso, occupying 58 hectares in the Chillón Valley, is one of the largest early architectural complexes in Peru. The Proyecto Bajo Valle del Chillón has concentrated its recent efforts at this site, attempting to elucidate its chronology, social role, and economic base. This paper presents the major results of studies of architecture and chronology from our first season of excavations at El Paraíso. Our research has revealed a fairly short o…
Architecture and Chronology at El Paraiso, Peru
Cerro De Media Luna; An Early Intermediate Period Site in the Chillon Valley, Peru
Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]
Life And Death At Paloma
The Historical Dimension in Mortuary Expressions of Status and Sentiment [and Comments and Reply]
Tula of the Toltecs
Tula of the Toltecs: Excavations and Survey. Dan M. Healan editor. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1989. 313 pp., maps, tables, appendices, photographs, Fortran77 Diskette. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐87745‐209‐1
Tula of the Toltecs
The Moche Revolt of the Objects
Stories involving the death of the sun and a subsequent revolt of objects against humans are variants of a common and ancient Native American myth, and it is argued that a number of art works from the Moche culture of the Peruvian north coast depict a variant of this myth. The "Revolt of the Objects" theme is part of a narrative sequence representing an important epic of the late Moche culture that is linked to other Moche art, larger symbolic co…
Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities, Aerial Views of Precolumbian Ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras
Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities, Aerial Views of Precolumbian Ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. WILLIAM M. FERGUSON and ARTHUR H. ROHN. Photographs by John Q. Royce and William M. Ferguson. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1990. xiv + 251 pp., 237 illustrations. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐887081‐173‐8
Cave of the Jagua
Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Tafnos. ANTONIO M. STEVENS‐ARROYO. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. 282 pp., tables, figures. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8263‐1102‐4
Late Preceramic Peru
Cave of the Jagua
Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities, Aerial Views of Precolumbian Ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras
Problems with the Late Preceramic of Peru
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
Monumental Architecture and Social Organization at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica
Results are reported of field work conducted in 1992 and 1993 at the Rivas site (SJ-148-RV), San Jose Province, Costa Rica. The investigations have revealed a large site, over 2 km in length. Habitation areas similar to those identified at other sites in the region were found. Cemetery areas with low status burials contrast with high status interments at the adjacent site of Panteon de La Reina. In addition, a large complex of monumental architec…
Continuity and Disjunction in Pre-Columbian Art and Culture
Ancient South America. Karen Olsen Bruhns
The Narrative Approach to Moche Iconography
This paper develops ideas first presented in "The Moche Revolt of the Objects" (Quilter 1990). It suggests that while the thematic approach to Moche iconography is useful, application of an approach that assumes that the themes are segments of a narrative will increase our understanding of the myths behind Moche art. After discussing the basis on which narrative may be inferred from art, the narrative approach is applied to demonstrate how known …
Beyond Death
Presentation
The Moche. Garth Bawden
Gender in pre-Hispanic America
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